The Islamist State claims responsibility for Paris Attacks

A state of emergency has been declared in France after a night of horror in Paris in which at least 128 people have died.

There were two suicide attacks and a bombing near the Stade de France stadium, shootings at restaurants and a massacre inside the Bataclan theatre where US rock band Eagles of Death Metal were playing.

In the UK, David Cameron will chair a meeting of the Government's Cobra emergency committee in after the worst violence to hit France since the Second World War.

French President Francois Hollande has this morning called the attacks "an act of war" and said ISIS is responsible.